This time I’ve spoken with Estella, research associate at the University college in London.
Estella received a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Sydney (Australia), with a study on social responses to crisis and crisis management in Lebanon.

We refer in this episode to her book ‘Specchi scomodi’ (available italian, but topic available on her website, detail below) where she describes the forced migration and she explain in a very clear way the background of that.
Recorded at the beginning to the Covid19 outbreak, we touched the topic of migration and solidarity.

With this episode I put myself completely outside my comfort zone in an absolutely humble approach in learning something far from my daily life. Estella made for me very easy trying to share a very complex topic in a way I could feel connected.

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What brought Estella Carpi to Lebanon and what moves her in a constant research of peace and human development and progress  ?

We talked about her experience in Lebanon, the difference between compassion and informed solidarity, her love for arabic world and fascination for what she defines ‘what is not me’.

She also opened up sharing her feelings around reaching a dream, when it comes to her field: as a researcher speaking of failure is a taboo.

What I learned during this conversation is that there is always something that we can do: informed solidarity is the way to change things, a way to make humanity to feel real.

Guest: Estella Carpi:

1) https://mabisir.wordpress.com/ Views on anthropological, social and political affairs in the Middle East. 
2) Specchi scomodi. Etnografia delle migrazioni forzate nel Libano contemporaneo.  Editore: Mimesis 2018